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Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Mon Oct 27 13:34:58 EDT 2008


Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> ...
> 
> You had Compilers!
> You had Compiler Vendors!
> 
> When I was lad, we had nowt but raw hardware.
> We had to sit in cold room, ears deafened by
> whine of fan, clicking switches to load our
> octal in computer. We just had error light...

You had octal!  We just had oscilloscope traces shifting up and down.
If there wasn't a metal mask over the oscilloscope with marks where
the bits were, we'd have been in a world of hurt.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org




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